Holiday Valley Resort - The Snow Machine is on!

Holiday Valley Resort reported on November 9, 2017 that the snow operations crew fired up the snowguns to kickoff the 2017-18 winter season. According to the Holiday Valley website, Steve Crowley, Director of Mountain Operations stated, “With Friday’s predicted low temperatures in the teens and highs only in the low 20’s, it’s the perfect scenario to start up our snowmaking system. We look for at least a 24 hour period of cold and we expect to be able to make snow starting Friday morning and possibly into Saturday.”

The Holiday Valley Website stated that they are "taking advantage of their automated snowmaking system, the Holiday Valley crew will be able to run snowguns on five or more slopes – Yodeler, Mardi Gras, School Haus, Punch Bowl and Cindy’s. In addition, they will be test firing the new automated guns that were installed this summer on several other slopes. The advantage of an automated snowmaking system where the guns are computer controlled in a central location is that the guns can fire up all at the same time, without having to manually travel to each location to turn them on or off. The system is also energy efficient and able to adapt to changes in temperature and humidity. "

Sunday is expected to turn warmer, "so the resort will create mounds of manmade snow this week to preserve them until snowmaking can restart with the next cold snap. Holiday Valley plans to open on Friday, November 24, weather permitting. Ideally Mother Nature will contribute to the effort, but Crowley estimates they’ll need to build up about a 12 inch base of manmade snow on the slopes."

Stay tuned as mother nature and Holiday Valley do their best to kickoff the 2017-18 ski season!

The posting is from the Holiday Valley website on 11-9-2017.  https://www.holidayvalley.com/press/press-room/detail/40/

January 26 and 27, 2017 is the Your Turn Women's Ski Clinic at Holiday Valley Resort

Your Turn Women's Clinic

January 26–27, 2017 

Holiday Valley Snowsports School is featuring the fifth annual "Your Turn" women's clinic on Thursday and Friday, January 26 and 27, 2017 led by Lisa Densmore Ballard, a widely acclaimed coach, instructor and ski racer and assisted by several of Holiday Valley's finest women instructors. Intermediate through advanced level skiers (can comfortably ski blues, some black diamonds) will benefit from this clinic. The clinic will begin at 8AM with registration and breakfast. Pre-registration is advised as attendance is limited. Stop at or call the Snowsports School Desk, 716-699-2345, ext 4422 or the Creekside Lodge Children's Desk at 716-699-2345 ext.4424.

Cost of the clinic is $290.00 and it includes 2 days of coaching, demo equipment, breakfast and lunch each day plus dinner on Thursday. Specially priced lift tickets will be available. Lodging special at the Inn at Holiday Valley for Wednesday and Thursday nights, Call 800-323-0020.

Clinic Schedule

The clinic will include a continental breakfast each day, talks about ski equipment and proper boot fitting, 2 lunches and one dinner, plenty of skiing with Lisa and HV Instructors, video analysis of each participant, demo equipment and door prizes! Lodging and lift tickets are not included, but are available at special rates. A full schedule of the clinic will be available this fall. Find details of the schedule here.

About Lisa

Lisa Densmore Ballard has been involved in many aspects of the ski world. A member of the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1970’s and a six-year veteran of the Women’s Pro Ski Tour in the 1980’s, Lisa has competed in ski racing for most of her life. Today, she is a standout on the master’s circuit, with 4 world titles and 76 national titles across all alpine disciplines. She has been the number one ranked skier in her age group and a member of the U.S. Alpine Masters Ski Team since she joined the master’s circuit 1991.

In addition to competition, Lisa has been highly regarded ski instructor and coach for over 20 years. During the 1990’s, she was the instruction editor for Snow Country and then Mountain Sports & Living magazines, introducing and refining ski technique on shaped skis in the United States. Lisa was Director of the Snow Country Ski Schools and later the RSN Alpine Excellence training centers in conjunction with the PSIA Alpine Demo Team. At the same time, she founded the Head-Subaru Women’s Ski Clinics which have now become the Your Turn Women’s Ski Events. Over 6,000 women have had breakthroughs in their skiing while taking Lisa’s clinics. Lisa has also coached numerous junior and adult race programs over her long career and is currently director of the master’s program and a coach for FIS-level racers at her home mountain in Red Lodge, Montana.

In addition to helping people improve on-snow, Lisa has written hundreds of articles and produced and hosted numerous television shows on skiing. She has covered the sport for networks such as ESPN, Fox Sports, ABC, NBC, CBS, A&E, The Weather Channel, The Travel Channel, PBS, and Outside TV. She has served as a consultant to many ski gear manufacturers and ski resorts on their women’s products and programs, and she periodically speaks on women’s skiing topics at national ski trade events. She has written 7 books, including “Ski Faster!” (McGraw-Hill), a top-selling ski instructional book.

Learn more about Lisa and her many talents at LisaDensmore.com

Our wish came true.... Snow in Ellicottville for 2016

Warm winters are a ski resorts worst scenario. Welcome the El Nino for 2016! Thankfully the cold weather has come and the western New York ski resorts are making snow daily. Holiday Valley, HoliMont and Kissingbridge have been making snow when it has been cold enough and have a pretty good base on a number of slopes. Each resort is adding new lifts and trails daily, so check back to their websites to see what is available before your schedule your ski trip this year!

As of January 14, 2016, the following ski runs and lifts are open at the resorts:

Resort                            Open Trails  Total Trails  Open Lifts Total Lifts Snow Base
Holiday Valley Resort         35                  58                    9                  13         6"-25"
Holimont Ski Resort            11                  52                    3                   8         12"-28"
Kissingbridge Ski Resort       5                  40                    3                  10             50"

Holiday Valley Snow Report:
We received about 13 inches over the past 3 days and great snowmaking temps. More natural snowfall is predicted. We plan to open 12 lifts and 85-90 percent of the slopes by the weekend. The Rail Park and Fiddler's Terrain park are open. NASTAR Recreational Racing season starts on Thursday. Tubing Park also opens on Thursday at 4:30. Try out the Kicksleds at Tamarack, $10 per hour., it's a great family after skiing activity.
http://www.holidayvalley.com/

HoliMont Snow Report:
HoliMont has reopened for the 2015/2016 season. Please check the Trail and Lift Report for updates. Try out the Slope Report at 1.877.SKI.HOLI (754.4654).
http://www.holimont.com/

Kissing Bridge Snow Report:
Good News! The snow guns have been blasting away and Mother Nature is helping out with all this beautiful lake effect snow! It’s like being in a snow globe with the snow on and off all week and still going! Our Central Area will have Holly, Twister, Coal Chute, Candy Cane (beginner hill) and the Mini Terrain Park open all freshly groomed.  Our Snow Magicians are working vigorously as the temperatures have dropped this week and the magic is continuing on Twister, Coal Chute and various other slopes and over to the North Area. And plans to open our South Area tomorrow!!

Make sure you make it out here Saturday January 16th for our Beach Party in the Lake Effect Saloon, with BLACK WIDOW here to rock the place out from 8pm-12 MIDNIGHT!
http://www.kbski.com/